Health Networks: Can They Be the Solution?

by Thomas P. Weil, Ph.D., M.P.H. ’58

The University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, Mich.), 2001

This book evaluates whether recently formed health networks can generate enough fiscal savings to provide greater access to and quality of health care despite the current trend of cutbacks in reimbursement from Medicare and managed-care plans. It concludes with a very timely and much needed discussion of how U.S. health networks might divest certain programs, services and facilities in the case of an almost inevitable economic turndown.